Horrible Histories with Stephen Fry - Netflix

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Stephen Fry links the very best sketches from Series 1 and 2 of the
Bafta and British Comedy Award-winning show Horrible Histories.

Type: Variety

Languages: English

Status: Ended

Runtime: 30 minutes

Premier: 2011-06-19

Horrible Histories with Stephen Fry - Hugh Laurie - Netflix

James Hugh Calum Laurie, (UK: ; born 11 June 1959) is an English actor,
director, musician, comedian, and author. Laurie first gained
recognition for his work as one half of the comedy double act Fry and
Laurie with friend and comedy partner Stephen Fry, whom he met through
mutual friend Emma Thompson whilst attending Cambridge University, where
Laurie was president of the Cambridge Footlights. The duo acted together
in a number of projects during the 1980s and 1990s, including the sketch
comedy series A Bit of Fry & Laurie and the P. G. Wodehouse adaptation
Jeeves and Wooster. Laurie's other roles during the period include the
period comedy series Blackadder (in which Fry also appeared) and the
films Sense and Sensibility, 101 Dalmatians, The Borrowers and Stuart
Little. Laurie portrayed the title character in the U.S. medical drama
series House (2004–12) on Fox, for which he won a Golden Globe Award. He
was listed in the 2011 Guinness World Records as the most watched
leading man on television and was one of the highest-paid actors in a
television drama, earning £250,000 ($409,000) per episode of House.
Laurie portrayed the antagonist Richard Onslow Roper in the miniseries
The Night Manager and Senator Tom James in the HBO sitcom Veep, for
which he received Emmy Award nominations. He also played the lead role
of forensic psychiatrist Dr. Eldon Chance in the Hulu series Chance
(2016–17). Outside acting, Laurie has released two blues albums, Let
Them Talk (2011) and Didn't It Rain (2013), both to favourable reviews,
and has authored a novel, The Gun Seller, published in 1996. Among his
honours, Laurie has won three Golden Globe Awards, two Screen Actors
Guild Awards and has been nominated for ten Primetime Emmy Awards. He
received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 2016. He was appointed
Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2007 New Year
Honours and Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the
2018 New Year Honours, both for services to drama.